"(The media) don't want to report that I spoke out forecefully against bigotry, hatred and violence."

Update 8.17pm: A former bus driver arrested over a string of killings that terrorised several neighbourhoods of Phoenix, Arizona, has declared "I'm innocent" during a brief court hearing.

Sandy West, whose ferocious drumming fuelled the influential all-female 70s US rock band the Runaways, which she co-founded with Joan Jett, has died of lung cancer.